News and Recent Events

News

Noel Cressie awarded the 2017 Georges Matheron Award and Lectureship, International Association for Mathematical Geosciences.
National Science Foundation-Census Research Network (NCRN) was awarded the 2017 Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award.
Scott Holan named Senior Research Fellow, Office of the Associate Director for Research and
Methodology (ADRM), U.S. Census Bureau.
Jonathan Bradley hired as an assistant professor of statistics at Florida State University.
Mary Jost hired as a Mathematical Statistician at the U.S. Census Bureau (Decennial Statistical Studies Division - DSSD)
Chris Wikle named University of Missouri Curators' Distinguished Professor.
Scott Holan received the H. O. Hartley award from Texas A&M University for distinguished service to the discipline of statistics.
Mary Ryan is now a graduate student in statistics at University of California, Irvine.
Noel Cressie awarded the 2016 Barnett Award for excellence in environmental statistics, Royal Statistical Society.

Fall 2017

Visitors

September 2017, Dr. Alan E. Gelfand, Duke University.

STSN Presentations

"Computationally Efficient Distribution Theory for Bayesian Inference of High-Dimensional Dependent Count-Valued Data," NBER--NSF Time Series Conference, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, September 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Bayesian Hierarchical Models with Conjugate Full-Conditional Distributions for Dependent Data from the Natural Exponential Family," Department of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, September 2017 (J.R. Bradley).
"Introduction to Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data," Invited ASA Traveling Short-Course, Harvard University, Boston, MA, April 2017 (C.K. Wikle).
"Introduction to Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data," Invited ASA Traveling Short-Course, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, March 2017 (C.K. Wikle).
"Introduction to Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data," Invited ASA Traveling Short-Course, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, March 2017 (C.K. Wikle).

Summer 2017

STSN Presentations

"Estimating Distributions for Populations Within Nested Geographies with Public-Use Data," Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, August 2017 (M.W. Simpson).
"Cepstral Models: An Overview of Recent Advances," Memorial Session for Emanuel Parzen, Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, August 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Survey Fusion with Application to the American Community Survey and Local Area Unemployment Statistics," Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, August 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Nonlinear dynamical spatio-temporal models and their efficient estimation," Joint Statistical Meetings (Invited Speaker), Baltimore, MD, August 2017 (C.K. Wikle).
"Hierarchical Models for Spatial Data with Errors That Are Correlated with the Latent Process," Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD, August 2017 (J.R. Bradley).
"A spatial conditional approach to modelling unemployment and poverty in the counties of Missouri," Small Area Estimation Conference (Invited Paper), Paris, France, July 2017 (N. Cressie).
"How to Prepare Successful Grant Applications," The 61st World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (Invited Panelist), Marrakech, Morocco, July 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Small Area Estimation for High-Dimensional Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Count Data," The 61st World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Marrakech, Morocco, July 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Small Area Estimation for High-Dimensional Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Count Data," Small Area Estimation Conference, Paris, France, July 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Quantifying and mitigating aggregation error," The 61st World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute (Invited Lecture), Marrakech, Morocco, July 2017 (C.K. Wikle).
"Quantifying and mitigating aggregation error," Small Area Estimation Conference (Invited Lecture), Paris, France, July 2017 (C.K. Wikle).
"Recent advances in quantifying uncertainty in nonlinear spatio-temporal statsitical models," Data Science & Environment Workshop (Invited Lecture), Brest, France, July 2017 (C.K. Wikle).
"Multivariate spatio-temporal survey fusion with application to the American community survey and local area unemployment statistics," The 61st World Statistics Congress of the International Statistical Institute, Marrakech, Morocco, July 2017 (J.R. Bradley).
"Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Survey Fusion with Application to the American Community Survey and Local Area Unemployment Statistics," ISBIS 2017 Meeting on Statistics in Business and Industry, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, June 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Bayesian Analysis of Spatially-Dependent Functional Responses with Spatially-Dependent Multi-Dimensional Functional Predictors," Southern Regional Conference on Statistics, Jekyll Island, GA, June 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Models for High-Dimensional Non-Gaussian Dependent Data," Southern Regional Conference on Statistics, Jekyll Island, GA, June 2017 (J.R. Bradley).

Spring 2017

STSN Presentations

"A conditional approach to multivariate spatial covariance models," Australian Bureau of Statistics (Invited Seminar), Belconnen, ACT, Australia, May 2017 (N. Cressie).
"A conditional approach to multivariate spatial modelling," Symposium on Complex Data Analysis (Invited Paper), Hsinchu, Taiwan, May 2017 (N. Cressie).
"Estimating Distributions for Populations Within Nested Geographies with Public-Use Data," ACS Data Users Conference 2017, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Alexandria, VA, May 2017 (M.W. Simpson).
"Introduction to Stan for Markov Chain Monte Carlo," U.S. Center for Survey Research and Methodology, Census Bureau (Invited Seminar), Suitland, MD, April 2017 (M.W. Simpson).
"Estimating Distributions for Populations Within Nested Geographies with Public-Use Data," NCRN meeting, U.S. Census Bureau, Suitland, MD, April 2017 (M.W. Simpson).
"Spatio-Temporal Change of Support with Application to American Community Survey Multi-Year Period Estimates," Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, April 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Optimal Regionalization for Multiscale Spatial Processes," Eastern North American Region Biometric Society, Washington DC, April 2017 (J.R. Bradley).
"A conditional approach to multivariate spatial modelling," Al Kindi Lectures, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, March 2017 (N. Cressie).
"Spatio-Temporal Change of Support with Application to American Community Survey Multi-Year Period Estimates," Eastern North American Region Biometric Society, Washington DC, March 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"Recent advances in quantifying uncertainty in nonlinear dynamical spatio-temporal statistical models," National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, March 2017 (C.K. Wikle).
"Spatial modelling of multivariate socio-economic data," Frontiers in Social Statistics Methodology Workshop (Invited Speaker), Sydney, Australia, February 2017 (N. Cressie).
"Multivariate Spatio-Temporal Models for High-Dimensional Areal Data with Application to Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics," University of Washington, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, Seattle, WA, February 2017 (S.H. Holan).
"An Overview of Modern and Classical Methods in Spatial Statistics," Department of Geography, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, February 2017 (J.R. Bradley).